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This actually reminds me: I am pretty much automatically skeptical of tweaks, audiophile footer tweaks especially. You see many making what seem to be absurd claims of footers and isolation making sonic differences even under CD transports! The "everything makes a difference" subjective school of thought.
Turntable isolation makes sense to me, in the right conditions.
But I wondered about tube amplification. Many speak of microphonics, vibrations of the tubes I think, possibly altering the sound.
Is this a plausible effect if, say, you have tube amps in the same room as the speakers?
Or on a wood floor with people walking around a house (my tube amps have been on the floors sometimes)?
Or are there tube microphonics that can occur simply from the amp itself in operation? (I think this is the rational some have for putting those rubber rings on the tubes).
I can only say that for the heck of it I put my tube pre-amp on a few left over materials, footers, even isoacoustic pucks since I had them. I don't note any audible difference at all vs just sitting on it's wood shelf.
Turntable isolation makes sense to me, in the right conditions.
But I wondered about tube amplification. Many speak of microphonics, vibrations of the tubes I think, possibly altering the sound.
Is this a plausible effect if, say, you have tube amps in the same room as the speakers?
Or on a wood floor with people walking around a house (my tube amps have been on the floors sometimes)?
Or are there tube microphonics that can occur simply from the amp itself in operation? (I think this is the rational some have for putting those rubber rings on the tubes).
I can only say that for the heck of it I put my tube pre-amp on a few left over materials, footers, even isoacoustic pucks since I had them. I don't note any audible difference at all vs just sitting on it's wood shelf.